Who
amongst the contenders for the leadership of the Labour Party would have had
the vision and the courage of Aneurin Bevan to establish the British National
Health Service? The answer, surely, would be only Jeremy Corbyn.

In
his ten point plan "standing to deliver" he proposes to return the railways and
the energy sector to public ownership, an end to austerity, and the
establishment of a national investment bank to direct funds to create
tomorrow's jobs.

This
is a direct challenge to free-market unregulated capitalism with its mantra of "the
market knows best" that led to the economic crash. The economic collapse was
then followed by dogma- driven austerity programmes across Europe that have
particularly hurt the poor and vulnerable.

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Those
who are the true believers in the divinity of the market want even less
regulation; health and safety rules and laws at work - forget it; this is red
tape devised by bleeding heart liberals and misguided leftists. Employment
protection laws, fairness at work; oh no, this is stifling business and
enterprise, and should be abandoned.

Meanwhile,
ordinary citizens are conditioned by mainstream media to blame the disabled,
immigrants, and the unemployed, by the highlighting of individual cases of
fraud amongst the vulnerable and the poor. The super rich swindling vast sums
from the exchequer by tax evasion, tax avoidance, "creative
accounting" etc., are not subjected to the same vitriol.

Margaret
Thatcher laid the foundations for this attack on public services with the
privatisation of water, gas, electricity, and the sale of council housing, thus
opening up the market for private landlords to enrich themselves from
taxpayers, and for vast profits to go to giant energy companies, once again
pumping money up from the poor and middle classes to the super rich. She
presided over the deregulation of the financial markets with the "Big
Bang", unleashing the destructive greed of the "moneymen" that is now
blighting the lives of millions.

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The
Labour party under Blair reversed none of the privatisations, and on the
contrary they introduced private providers into the NHS and education. Their
Private Finance Initiative (PFI), used to build schools and hospitals by the
private sector at deferred highly inflated prices, will have to be paid for by
our children and grandchildren.

Their
election campaign under Ed Miliband lacked coherence; it appeared to be a
collection of policies that did not have a common arching principle to connect
them. The leadership always appeared to be on the defensive, and unable to
reply with a counter-narrative to that presented by the Tories.

Jeremy
Corbyn is presenting a coherent counter-narrative to that presented by
free-market capitalism espoused by the Conservative party and the "moneymen".
This is how he sums up his mission:

"Our vision is
of a more inclusive, honest and de-personalised form of politics. A country in
which people are happier, fulfilled and secure in their housing and work" our
vision of a government that works in the interests of its people, and supports
everybody in achieving their collective aspirations through providing strong
public services, access to the arts, and lifelong learning and a prosperous,
more balanced economy."

This
is a vision worth striving for, matched with policies designed to deliver it. Who would Aneurin Bevan have supported as
Leader of today's Labour Party? Answer:
Jeremy Corbyn, no doubt.

Dr Adnan Al-Daini took early retirement in 2005 as a principal lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at a British University. His PhD in Mechanical Engineering is from Birmingham University, UK. He has published numerous applied scientific research (more...)

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